International School of Advanced Studies

Annette Habluetzel is coordinator of the PhD programme on Malaria and Human Development, launched in 2008 thanks to the support of WHO-Global Malaria Programme.  Up to the present, 14 candidates have been awarded with the doctoral degree, originating from 6 African countries, the United States of America, India and Italy.  The objective of the doctoral course is to prepare young researchers from malaria endemic areas to fulfil roles such as project coordinators, managers, administrators, science communicators, decision makers and most importantly, to become reliable references for the health authorities in their home countries. The programme is open to candidates with whatever disciplinary background, i.e. biomedical and social sciences included. A structured training programme is offered on a yearly basis. From 2008 to 2013 five international, multi-disciplinary training workshops have been conducted. The workshop outcomes, highlights and conclusions, have been summarized by the doctoral candidates and published on the Programme web-site: http://malwks.unicam.it/;

 In November 2011 she has been nominated by the Rector of the University of Camerino delegate for Cooperation with African universities (“Cooperazione inter-universitaria: Africa”). In the frame of this role, she has activated a doctoral candidates’ working group on “Science Culture in and for Africa”, with the objective to raise awareness among the young researchers on their responsibility as researchers towards society; Presently, Annette Habluetzel  is acting as a facilitator of the group for the implementation of a Fair Trade enterprise aimed at the development and production of health products on the basis of medicinal plants and probiotiocs targeted to an African and the Italian market (UNICAM spin off ProHerbalCARE).